DeSantis spox return fire after ‘mainstream media’ hit piece: ‘Conservatives have to fight back’

New media outlet Semafor complained, 'Ron DeSantis is building his own alternative conservative media ecosystem in Florida'

Joe Silverstein, Alexa Moutevelis / Fox News

 

Semafor, a new media outlet founded by Ben Smith and Justin Smith, is facing major blowback for its reporting on Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis's relationship with the media. 

In a Sunday article titled, "Ron DeSantis is building his own media," Semafor media reporter Max Tani detailed the governor's penchant for primarily interviewing with conservative media outlets, including two new Florida publications, framing the governor's media habits as an attempt to receive easy interviews and friendly publicity. 

As Tani put it on Twitter, "Ron DeSantis is building his own alternative conservative media ecosystem in Florida," while Semafor's official Twitter account said, "The Florida governor has been freezing out the mainstream press and giving interviews to outlets backed by GOP donors."

Members of the governor's team pushed back against Semafor's claims and criticized liberal media for not giving Republicans a...Read more, see tweets and video here.

Here’s What Has Musk Concerned After Release of Twitter Files 

Leah Barkoukis / Townhall Tipsheet

 

Twitter chief Elon Musk opened up on Saturday about the threats he’s receiving amid the release of the Twitter Files—the internal documents that show how the company responded to the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020.

As Townhall detailed, internal emails reveal how employees at the social media giant “handled” requests from the Biden Team and DNC to take content off the site and control the information Americans knew about the laptop from hell.  As Musk commented, “Twitter was acting like an arm of the Democratic National Committee, it was absurd.”

Speaking during a two-hour Q&A chat on Twitter Spaces, Musk spoke about the risk of being assassinated, saying he wouldn’t be “doing any open-air car parades, let me put it that way.”

“Frankly the risk of something bad happening to me, or even literally…Read more here.

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